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CVE-2024-27071 (GCVE-0-2024-27071)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-05-01 13:04 – Updated: 2026-05-11 20:09
VLAI
Title
backlight: hx8357: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: backlight: hx8357: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference The "im" pins are optional. Add missing check in the hx8357_probe().
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-05-01 15:20 UTC
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 7d84a63a39b78443d09f2b4edf7ecb1d586379b4 , < 67e578c8ff2d7df03bf8ca9a7f5436b1796f6ad1 (git)
Affected: 7d84a63a39b78443d09f2b4edf7ecb1d586379b4 , < b1ba8bcb2d1ffce11b308ce166c9cc28d989e3b9 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.8
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.8 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.8.2 , ≤ 6.8.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.9 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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